per contra

In 2007, she submitted a short story to the online writers group Zoetrope Virtual Studio, where it attracted the interest of the publisher of the literary journal Per Contra.

But the Fed might, per contra, decide that what matters more is the relatively robust performance of the US economy - where jobs are being created at a relatively healthy rate, unemployment has nudged down to 5.1%, business investment is strong and growth estimates have been revised up.

Mr Carney, per contra, and by implication the UK's big political parties, have a more limited ambition: to sanitize the financial status quo, but not to replace it.

By the way, some economists would argue, per contra, that slashed investment spending has directly contributed to lower growth and worsening public finances - but that is not an argument that the chancellor finds compelling.

There is perhaps a per contra side.